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What would make you buy a new Amazon Kindle?
1/ USB-C because the only other devices I typically charge that still use USB Micro-B are things like headphones and speakers. Devices that aren’t likely to retire until they break, no longer hold a suitable charge, or become a source of pain over the aging Bluetooth standards. So things that will probably die by the time USB connectors other than Type-C have gone the way of the floppy diskette.2/ Tremendous boost in US performance. Because tasks like looking up words or shifting through annotations ain’t very fast on the Kindle 10 by any means. But when you consider that it’s hard to make the device any cheaper, and the SoC has enough oomph not to worry about ebooks exceeding its capabilities: it’s hard to complain about showing some patience for infrequently used interfaces to finally open.
Covid Will Have Larger Impact on Commercial Than Residential Real Estate, Says New York Architect
TIL: xfce4-terminal has a drop-down mode.
Chromebooks desperately need more than 4GB of RAM in 2020.
Reflects on RE 1998 and 2019 map design
One of my various wonders about RE2 was just how much its maps differ from the original, a game I didn’t see anywhere near as much of as the PlayStation releases of Resident Evil. Little to my surprise looks like there’s a website out there with detailed maps and item info for like every RE game ever.
Moron; noun: when you realize that it’s too late to make coffee and a candy bar has to do.
On the flip side things got done, I just didn’t get any coffee in the process 😂.
Willow: Whining for a treat.
Things I will miss after the pandemic: traffic being so darned light, as most of those able to work from home, actually do.
Thing’s I won’t miss: finding a dozen mega rolls on the store shelves, and being thrilled!
Upside of email notifications: knowing you’ve got email.
Downside of email notifications; “Huh, why the @#$& am I awake now?”
Which makes me remember this morning, that I had a dream about people being disappointed by my unwillingness to work twenty days straight without sleep. That was an interesting dream….lol